I’ve always hated pretension. The intentional obscuring of some “deeper truth” through “clever” means is anathema to everything I am. My whole life, I’ve played devil’s advocate. You say the sky is blue, I’ll point out that at night, it’s black, and that we shouldn’t get so stuck on our dogma. I’ll point out it’s …
Self-Help
the message given is not the message written dissonance abounds I read a lot of self-help books. I know, I know. My sister-in-law makes fun of me for it as well. The thing is, I don’t necessarily read them because I need help. I do, but I learned a long time ago that these books …
Death
Most people go with “Hello, World” to start. Me, I’ve been thinking a lot about death. Not because I’m suicidal or because anyone I know just died. But because it’s an increasingly impositional presence in my life, in terms of how much time we actually have. It could be because I’m getting older and am …